Tyler McBrien

And this monument is 20 feet tall, six massive granite slabs, weighing 250,000 pounds, something like that, with strange inscriptions that he wanted sandblasted onto the side after it's cordoned and everything.

But he has a lot of conditions, one being that his identity is never revealed.

He only revealed it to...

the president of the granite company that was building it, and then the money man.

He basically, that was the only way that they would fund this.

But other than that, he kept his identity completely secret.

It went up in 1980 in Elberton.

I think it was just because it's just so hard to transport that huge amount of granite.

And then it sat there until 2022, always attracting conspiracy theories about UFOs, about lizard people, like whatever the conspiracy theory du jour was.

You could hang it on the Guidestones.

Until 2022, when someone in the middle of the night on July 6th blew them up with some explosives.

And to this day, it remains a mystery of who blew them up.

And so that's kind of what we were trying to tell.

This double mystery of who built them and then who blew them up.

Yeah, and it's funny, the RC Christian, he wrote a lot.

He wrote a book to kind of explain what was behind these, and he took direct inspiration from Stonehenge, but the flaw that he saw in Stonehenge was that they didn't have any words on them, so no one knows what they meant, and so that they are always shrouded in secrecy.

So he wanted to go through great pains to write everything on the Guidestones, and I should probably say...

They are essentially meant to guide humanity after some sort of apocalyptic event wipes the slate clean.

So in the 80s, this was, I think, top of mind.

This was like nuclear apocalypse with the Soviets, for example.